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Jeff Greenfield, senior analyst for CNN, reports live from the Democratic Convention. Vanity Fair contributor Bryan Burrough looks back on America’s most notorious crime wave, and the FBI’s formative years between 1933 and 1934 in his book Public Enemies. Then Michael Moore joins us by phone from Boston to talk about why he thinks "Fahrenheit 9/11" has been such a polarizing force in the country. Chuck Klosterman shares his self-described "low-culture" manifesto: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. And we’ll hear from Nancy Butcher, whose book The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse revels in the uneasy fascination that surrounds rare diseases, medical mysteries, and unusual remedies.